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Australian Temporary Visa Holder Statistics July 31, 2024

The Australian Department of Home Affairs publishes data via the Australian Bureau of Statistics on temporary visa holders in Australia. The most recent data comes from July 31, 2023. In this article, we look at the

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Australian Temporary Visa Holder Statistics February 29, 2024

The Australian Department of Home Affairs publishes data via the Australian Bureau of Statistics on temporary visa holders in Australia. The most recent data comes from July 31, 2023. In this article, we look at the

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Australian Temporary Visa Holder Statistics July 31, 2023

The Australian Department of Home Affairs publishes data via the Australian Bureau of Statistics on temporary visa holders in Australia. The most recent data comes from July 31, 2023. In this article, we look at the

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Honeymoon for Student and Working Holiday Visa Work Restrictions to End on 1 July 2023

Work Restrictions To Be Reintroduced Work restrictions for working holiday and student visas have been relaxed during the COVID-19 pandemic but are due to be reintroduced from 1 July 2023. The work restriction for student visa holders will be reintroduced from 1 July 2023, and will be for 48 hours per fortnight rather than 40

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Australian Temporary Visa Holder Statistics December 31, 2022

The Australian Department of Home Affairs publishes data via the Australian Bureau of Statistics on temporary visa holders in Australia. The most recent data comes from December 31, 2022 and it makes for interesting reading on: Australia’s unemployment rate was just 3.7% in January 2023 and yet anecdotal evidence from discussions with vSure customers (typically

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Australian Temporary Visa Holder Statistics October 31, 2022

Strict Liability
The Australian Department of Home Affairs publishes data via the Australian Bureau of Statistics on temporary visa holders in Australia. The most recent data comes from October 31, 2022 and it makes for interesting reading on the recovery in temporary visa holders in Australia with work rights, post borders reopening. Australia’s unemployment rate was just

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How COVID is affecting the visa holder workforce in Australia

We’ve been eagerly monitoring the Department of Home Affairs visa statistics page for the half-year 2021 numbers to be published. Sadly we continue to wait. But whilst we do, we found stats for 31 May 2021 on the Data.gov.au site. What we were looking for was to correlate what we’re seeing via our website traffic

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Doing a Visa Check in vSure versus VEVO

Manual Visa Checks
We are often asked what the differences are between doing a visa check in vSure versus doing a visa check using the Department of Home Affairs’ VEVO system. The top 9 differences between VEVO and vSure visa checks are summarised below: 1. Compliance = more than just VEVO visa checks Employers have the obligation to

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What is Causing the Boom in Bridging Visas?

boom in bridging visa holders
There are now over 230,000 people in Australia on Bridging Visas. These are visas held whilst waiting for the outcome of another visa application process – generally a visa application or appeal. Recent newspaper articles have pointed out that this is bigger than the population of Hobart – it also easily exceeds the number of

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vSure announces successful management buyout and capital raise

Left to Right: Matt Paff, Mark Webster, Bruce Carr, Dr Paul Hauck vSure GM Matt Paff leads MBO of Australia’s leading work rights compliance platform and welcomes Australasian tech industry veteran Bruce Carr to the board. Sydney 16/7/2019 – Work rights and visa compliance technology company vSure, founded by serial entrepreneur and well-known migration industry

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